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SAWING MACHINE. APPLICATION HL'BD MAY 4, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

JAMES R. BINNS, 0F CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO EDWIN D. MYERS,OF CANTON, OHIO.

SAWING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led. May 4, 1912.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JAMES R. BINNS, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Canton, in the county of Starkand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSawing-IIachineavof which the following is a full, clear, and eX- actdescription, such as will enable others skilled in the art to make anduse.

My invention consists of an improved sawing machine designed andcalculated to cut rods of wood preferably of cylindrical form intolengths of any desired size.

The objects of the present invention, are first, to provide meanswhereby a series of rods may be attached and carriedI by the machine,second, to provide means for sawing the rods so carried by the machineinto the desired lengths and of uniform length, third, to hold the rodsduring the time they are being sawed, and fourth, to hold the portionssawed from the rods for a short interval of time and then releasing thesawed portions, and also releasing the remaining portions, of the rodsduring the time they are carried by the machine so as to bring the rodsinto position to be again sawed. These objects together with otherobjects I accomplish by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is atransverse vertical section on line f-3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of one of the combined rod holders and belt carriers and a portionof one of the wheels to which the holders are attached. Fig. 5 is a viewshowing a portion of the lowermost wheel and a portion of the baseillustrating the position of the stripper blade.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing, 1 represents the lower base plate or framewhich is supported at the required height by means of the posts orstandards 2, which posts or st-andards rest upon a suitable foundationof any desired construction. To the top or upper ends of the posts orstandards 2 is connected the upper base 3. The base or frame 1 isprovided with the bearings 4, in which bearings is journaled the powershaft 5, to which power shaft `is securely mounted a drive pulley 6. Thepower shaft 5 is provided at its inner end with the beveled pinion 7,which pinion meshes with the beveled gear wheel 8, which beveled gearwheel is securely attached in any convenient and well known manner tothe upright shaft- 9. To the upright shaft 9 is securely attachedwhatmight be termed t-he platform or rod supporting and gage wheel 10,said wheel being preferably located just above the uppermost base orframe 3. This supporting wheel 10 should be so adjusted with referenceto the uppermost base 3 that it will be free to rotate with the shaft 9.A short distance above the platform wheel 10 is located the wheel 11 anda short distance above the wheel 11 is located the wheel 12, said wheels11 and 12 being substantially alike in construct-ion and size.

Directly above the wheel 12 is located the wheel 13,which wheel isprovided with the adjustable rod carrying heads 14, `best illustrated inFig. 1. The various wheels 10, 11, 12 and 13 are securely mounted upont-he shaft 9 in any convenient and well known manner such as commonlyused in fixing wheels upon shafts designed to impart rotary motion tothe wheels by the shaft to which they are attached.

To the peripheries of the wheels 11 and 12 are attached the combined rodholders and belt carriers 15, said carriers being preferably connectedby means of slotted arms 16 and suitable clamping bolts 17. The heads 15are provided with the side flanges 18, which anges are so located withreference to each other that V-shaped recesses or vertical grooves willbe provided and into which grooves the rods designed to be sawed arelseated. The flanges 18 are provided with the cut out portion by means ofwhich grooves-located at substantially right angles to the verticalgrooves are provided. These horizontal grooves or recesses are for thepurpose of receiving the bands 19 and 20, which bands are held in closecontact with the heads 15 during the time said heads are in engagementwith the bands. For the purpose of snugly holding the bands upon theheads 15 they are extended to one side of the wheels 11 and 12 a shortdistance and located aroundthe idlers 21 and 22, which idlers arejournaled upon suitable bearings 23, which bearings are connected to therock arms 24 and 26, said rock arms being securely mounted upon the rockshafts 26 and 27, said rock shafts being properly journaled in the upperand lower base plates or frames 1 and 3. To the rock shafts 26 and 27and below the rock arms 211- and 25 are securely attached the arms orpull bars 23 and 29, said arms being preferably located just above thelower base or frame 1. For the purpose of holding the bands 19 and 2Otant so that said bands will hug and hold the rods designed to be sawedat the proper times the springs 30 and 31 are provided, which springsare connected to the base 1 or its equivalent and to the outer ends ofthe arms 28 and 29, said springs being so tensioned that they will holdthe rock arms 24 and 25 together with the idlers carried thereby in sucha position as to hold the bands 19 and 20 in proper taut condition tosnugly hold the rods, but at the same time allowing the yielding` of thebands to compensate for any variance produced by an increased ordecreased number of rods or for different sizes of rods.

yAt one side of the rotary wheels 1() and 11 is located the verticalshaft 32, which shaft is journaled in suitable bearings fixed to somepart of the frame preferably to the lower base plate 1 and the upperbase 3, but this is immaterial except that the shafts 32 should be solocated that a proper sized saw 33 when properly attached to the top orupper end of the shaft 32 will be so attached that as the rods arecarried around, the saw will eut the rods.

For the purposev of imparting rotary motion to the saw 33 the shaft 32is provided with the pulley 34 which is driven by the belt 35 or itsequivalent. ln the accompany ing kdrawings I have illustrated a powershaft 36 lupon which is mounted the wheel 37, said shaft 36 being drivenfrom any source of power. It will be understood that other methods ofgearing may be employed todrive the saw shaft 32 without departing fromthe nature of my present invention inasmuch as the particular feature ofactuating the saw is mechanical.

In use the various rods designed to be cut are placed in verticalposition through suitable apertures formed in the carrying heads 14. Thepreferablepoint or place of feeding the rods being at a point where boththe belts 19 and 20 are spaced a short distance from the rod and beltcarriers 15 or at or about the point A, Fig. 1 as the various wheels 10,11, 12 and 13 revolve. After a given rod has been placed in position asillustrated in the drawing it will be car- `ried around with the variouscarrying wheels, the bottom or lower end of each rod resting upon theplatform wheel 10, which platform wheel acts as a gage to hold the rodsso that the portions cut off from said rods will be of exact uniformlength. As the various wheelsrevolvethe bands 19 and 20 will come incontact with the outer surfaces of the various rods, thereby clampingand holding the rods during the time they are being brought toward thesaw 33, the lowermost band 20 irst gripping the rods and the upper band19 later gripping the rods, both bands being brought into grippingaction prior to the time the rods are brought into contact with the saw33 by which arrangement and turning the rods are gripped both above andbelow the saw at the time the saw is in cutting action. After the sawhas cut a particular rod the portion located below the saw will begripped and held by the lowermost band and the portion above the sawwill be gripped by the uppermost band, but as the various wheels 10, 11,12 and 13 are revolved in a horizontal plane the severed portions of therods will first pass from the gripping action of the bands and bereleased, after which as it is carried around by the platform or supportit will be forced oft' from said platform by means of the blade 3T whenit falls into the chute 38 or a receptacle by which arrangement thesawed portions of the various rods are properly gathered into a suitablereceptacle as the wheels carrying the rods continue to revolve theuppermost band 2O is released from its gripping action and the rodpermitted to fall or move downward until its bottom or lower end strikesthe revolving platform or wheel 10 and when brought into action with thesaw the second time the portion below the saw is cut the action beingcontinued until the entire rod and in fact all of the rods earried bythe various wheels have been eut into the desired length or sections.

For the purpose of providing means for cutting dierent lengths fordifferent purposes suoli as various kinds of handles as awl handles,screw driver handles and the like, the shaft 32 is adjustable up anddown by means of which the saw 33 is brought to or from the supportingplatform 10, the length of the sawed sections being equal to thedistance between the saw 33 and the top surface of the plat-form orwheel 10.

For the purpose of holding `the shaft 32 in fixed and desired adjustmentthe clamp collar 39 or its equivalent is provided which clamp collarrests upon the upper surface of the upper base 3. For the purpose offeeding various sized rods such as Ll0 the carrying heads 14 areadjustably connected to the wheel 13, the apertures formed in saidcarrying heads being of sufticient size to receive the maximum sizedrods designed to be sawed, it being understood that the side ianges 1Swill permit various sized rods to be properly held by reason of the V-shaped arrangement of said tianges.

It will be understood that the various rods designed ,to be eut intosections should be held at right angles to the plane of the saw and inorder to provide for proper adjustment the heads 14 are provided withthe slots 14a through which slots clamping bolts 141 are passed. Thearms 16 of the heads 15 are also provided with the slots 16a throughwhich slots suitable clamping bolts 16b are passed. The main purpose forproviding adjustment of the heads 15 is to bring a pair of headsdirectly above each other so that when the two bands 19 and 2O clamp therods they will be brought into true vertical positions, but it is notabsolutely necessary to adjust the heads 15 for diiferent sized rods,owing to the fact that the heads 15 are so arranged that when the rodsare properly seated in the respective heads they will be in truevertical position regardless of the size of the rods.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a sewing machine of the class described', the combination of aframe, a vertical shaft journaled in said frame, a series of wheelsmounted upon said vertical shaft, the lowermost one of said wheelsadapted to support a series of rods, two wheels of the series providedwith combined belt holding and rod carrying heads, idle pulleys spacedfrom the wheels, said pulleys journaled upon rock arms, rock shaftsjournaled in the frame, said rock shafts provided with pull arms,springs connected to said pull arms, belts located in differenthorizontal planes and means for rotating the shaft carrying the seriesof wheels secured thereto and a saw located in the path of the rodscarried by the wheels, substantially as and for the purpose specilied.

2. In a sawing machine of the class described, the combination of aframe, a vertical shaft journaled in the frame, band Wheels mounted uponsaid vertical shaft, said band Wheels spaced from each other, rodcarrying heads secured to said band wheels and bands adapted for contactwith the heads, said bands extended to one side of each of the bandWheels and at different angles, means for holding the bands taut uponthe rod carrying heads and a saw located in a horizontal plane betweenthe band wheels, a supporting wheel located below the band wheels and arod carrying wheel located above the band wheels, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

3. In a sawing machine of the class described, the combination of aframe, a vertical shaft journaled in the frame, a series of wheelsfiXedly mounted upon said vertical shaft, the lowermost wheel of theseries adapted to support a series of rods and the uppermost wheel ofthe series adapted to carry the series ofrods, the intermediate seriesof the wheels provided with rod carrying heads, bands adapted forcontact with said heads, said bands extended at different angles fromthe wheels provided with the heads, means for holding the bands tautupon the heads, a saw located in a horizontal plane between theintermediate wheels of the series, and a scraper located in clo-seproximity with the lowermost wheel of the series, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

, JAMES R. BINNS.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. Brsrror, F. W. BOND.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

